Invitations to social
gatherings were showered upon the twin girls until their popularity was so
firmly established that no one thought of questioning it.
Dexie missed her Halifax friends very much. She met with no one in her new
home who could fill the place that the Gurney family had held in her heart,
and among all her many friends there was none she could make such an
intimate companion of as Elsie Gurney. In musical circles, Dexie soon
filled an envious position; but so far she had met no one whose sympathies
were like Lancy's. Oh, yes, she missed Lancy very much, indeed--she never
hesitated to confess it when the matter was alluded to; and very often,
when alone in the parlor, the piece of music which had such a strange power
over each of them filled the air with unmistakable longing, and seemed to
speak of loneliness and sorrow. But her bright face expressed no such sad
feeling to others; it seemed only the musical side of her nature that
mourned the loss of a kind and sympathetic friend.
She heard quite frequently from Elsie, and Lancy's weekly letters were
always bright and chatty; but they left Dexie with a certain uneasy feeling
that should have had no place in her heart, if Lancy's expressed regards
met with the reciprocation which he had some right to expect.
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